Nickname: Alex

Review: Surely if the patents are overturned, then that implies that they were never supposed to have been granted in the first place. The patents would thus be null and void. And surely any licenses, and especially any outstanding disputes arising from invalidated patents should be null and void. Oh sorry, that's common sense. The world of patents doesn't work with common sense.

Date reviewed: Feb 18, 2006 1:25 AM

Nickname: sergiobevi

Review: I think that RIM, in the long run, knows the patents will be overturned. However, the damage done to the company in lost revenue through new customers is the key.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 10:23 PM

Nickname: RichardNeill

Review: This is just another example of why software patents are a bad idea. The real solution is that patents on software and business methods should not be allowed.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 4:32 PM

Nickname: LJCosta

Review: NTP vs RIM "One Bite At The Apple": Two missing points that require consideration. 1. On January 23rd 2006 NTP petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to "stop defying Congress and dismiss inter partes reexamination or, in the alternative, to stop treating NTP disparately from other similarly situated parties." Source : http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/NTPPetitionOnlyFiling.pdf 2. The same Second Federal District Court that RIM previously appealed to and lost would be the court that NTP would appeal to if the patent(s) were overturned by the reexamination.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 4:01 PM

Nickname: Tim Howland

Review: Since the PTO has notified NTP that they are likely to reject these patents, isn't it smartest for RIM to sit tight and delay as long as they can, rather than settle? I guess that strategy relies on the PTO getting their act together already, which certainly flies in the face of history.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 3:14 PM

Nickname: Ben H.

Review: If RIM would have concentrated their energies into a solution instead of the problem, this would have been avoided altogether. If RIM can come up with a workaround this quickly, imagine what can be done if they put more R&D into the solution.

Date reviewed: Feb 10, 2006 12:23 PM